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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: E who wrote (46061)7/19/1999 3:01:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
If I showed off my instrument while trying to communicate I would probably end up in jail....

Really, though, the object of expository prose is to communicate a point, not to show off one's instrument, and clarity is the supreme virtue. Were we discussing poetry I might be tempted to read it aloud, admire its cadence, and forget about what it's supposed to mean. That might be an amusing exercise for a paragraph or so, but would you be up to 300 or so pages of it?

More than anything else it seems written as a sermon, a form I do not much care for. This might have tempted me to judge harshly.

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